Games media veteran John Davison has joined Red Robot Labs. Prior to taking the plunge into the world of game development, Davison worked for Ziff Davis and IDG Media. Most recently he served as the vice president of programming at CBS Interactive Games, overseeing web sites GameSpot, Metacritic, Giant Bomb and Comic Vine. Prior to that he led the GamePro brand at IDG. In 2007 he founded "What They Play," which he later sold to IGN/Fox Interactive Media in 2009.

Davison joins the company in a new publishing position. Red Robot publishes location-based mobile games such as Life is Crime. He'll serve as the director and general manager of content and publishing.